WOMAN IN DOCK

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 766, 12 September 1929, Page 1

WOMAN IN DOCK

CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE IN GRAVE CHARGE WITNESSES AT VARIANCE A direct conflict of evidence belween the statements of two witnesses for the Crown was an unusual development In the taking down of depositions when an Auckland woman faced a grave charge at the Police Court this morning. Jessie Morris, a dressmaker, aged 40, of Green Lane Road, was charged with, on April 28, unlawfully using an instrument. Mr. Singer appeared for her and the evidence was taken before Messrs. L. S. Rickerby and A. J. Stratford, J.P.’s. Ivy Mary Moselin, a married woman living with her husband and four children at Kaeo, said that she had come to town at the end of April. After she had been in Auckland about a week witness, with a Mrs. Hughes, also of Kaeo, had gone to a shop situated at 446 Queen Street where they had met accused. There, witness continued, the offence had been committed upon her and she had paid Mrs. Morris £5. Witness had gone home to Kaeo about the end of May and had been, for the last three months, an inmate of the Whangaroa Hospital. Hinemoa Thelma Hughes denied that she had ever been to accused’s shop or that she knew where it was. She did not know accused. Witness had met Mrs. Moselin and gone shop ping with her. When a detective had interviewed her at Whangaroa, she had said that she knew nothing of the case and would not have given evidence even if she had known anything. Detective-Sergeant Doyle described an interview he and Detective O’Sullivan had had with accused at her house in Green Lane on the evening of July 7. He was detailing questions he had asked the woman and her replies to them when an adjournment was decided upon. The hearing had then occupied two hours. Mr. Singer entered a plea of not guilty, and accused was committed to the Supreme Court for trial. Bail was renewed for the sum of £2OO and one surety of £2OO.